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Reservoir Booking-Stoves. No, 137,500, Pat entedAprillJ873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT" OFFICE.

HENRYSTEPHENS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN RESERVOIR COOKlNG-STOVES.-

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,500, dated April 1, 1873 application filed January 24, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY STEPHENs, of St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis and in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and-exact descriptiouthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the parts of a cooking-stove, as more fully hereinafter described.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal vertical section, of my stove.

A represents the top plate, and B B the sides, of a rectangular cast-iron cookingstove. O is the usual baking-oven, D the fire-box, and E the ash-pit of the same. In front of the fire-box D is located a water-reservoir, G, which extends down to a horizontal plate, H, extending in front of the ash-pit. The reservoir G is so arranged with relation to the fireboxD that the back of the reservoir forms the front wall of the fire-box with direct action of the fire, thus giving a large amount of boiling water all the time, and in a very short a is a faucet to draw ofl' water.

The reservoir is made of cast-iron, and the side against the fire may be made of extra and extending forward under the reservoir G,

is an oven, J, formed by extending the sides B B of the stove proper forward in front of the reservoir. This oven is intended for a heating-oven, and has a door, K, along the front, through which access is had to the same. This heating or warming oven forms a part of the stove, and is nearly or about the same capacity as the baking-oven. go in the warming-oven, thus affording a convenience which has long been needed.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The within-described cooking-stove, con sisting of the casing A B, oven 0, fire-box D, ash-pit E, reservoir G with its back forming the fire-box front, the plate H, and the front oven J, all constructed substantially as shown,

and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 27th dayof December, 1872.

' HENRY STEPHENS.

Witnesses:

I. S. Boees, FREDK. W. A. GEMMER.

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